Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 57
Remembering these maxims, the vigorous and beautiful young man knelt down, and requested the good dame to mount upon his back.
Who acts: vigorous young man · What happens: remember, kneel down, request, mount · To what, where: maxims, good dame, back
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vigorous young man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 knelt | advcl |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 maxims | det |
| 3 | maxims | maxim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Remembering | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remembering | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 6 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vigorous | conj |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knelt | nsubj |
| 11 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 knelt | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 requested | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 requested | cc |
| 15 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knelt | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dame | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dame | amod |
| 18 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 requested | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 mount | mark |
| 20 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 requested | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mount | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | the vigorous young man not said here | this maxims | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent maxim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kneel down | past | the vigorous young man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | request | past | the vigorous young man not said here | the good dame | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dame=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | mount | to-infinitive | the vigorous young man not said here | man's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon back=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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